The standard Vista interface has some new button types, like the
special toolbar that replaces the old menus in Windows Explorer, the
dropdown buttons in Windows Media player and other standard
applications (buttons with a little arrow that spawn a menu when
clicked), etc.

The question is: how can we use these in a managed environment? I did
not find any info on MSDN about these controls except the UI Guidelines
and those offer no advice on how to create such buttons.

Tanx a lot for your time!

Are these really "standard". They aren't used all that consistently across
different applications. From a quick skim of the UI Guidelines I think these
are "standard concepts", not controls.

They do not exist as stand-alone controls in Windows Presentation
Foundation. However, given Control Templates and Styles, it is relatively
trivial to implement the look and feel of these concepts.

- Doug

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> The standard Vista interface has some new button types, like the
> special toolbar that replaces the old menus in Windows Explorer, the
> dropdown buttons in Windows Media player and other standard
> applications (buttons with a little arrow that spawn a menu when
> clicked), etc.
>
> The question is: how can we use these in a managed environment? I did
> not find any info on MSDN about these controls except the UI Guidelines
> and those offer no advice on how to create such buttons.
>
> Tanx a lot for your time!
>